The nation. A School Teacher is beheaded in paris and what the french president has condemned as a flagrant attack on freedom. And early voter turnout smashes records in battleground states 3 weeks out from the u. S. Election. And were going to begin with an escalation in the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan azerbaijan says at least 12 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the 2nd largest city gun show its been hit repeatedly since fighting broke out over the disputed region of the golan okada back 3 weeks ago manias Defense Ministry says didnt fire towards john and the type of missile its accused of using doesnt even have the range to reach the sin and cos you know whos live for us in baku what more do we know about this attack. Well rob what we have been hearing from the officials is that this is a skull that has been fired from our main territories as you said it has been denied by their main you know tortillas so far but now everybodys curious to know who else can have fired that missile this is what people say on the social media. For these kinds of attacks especially for the scott missiles that have been used in the conflict so far. Have always accused our mania for firing those missiles from their own territories but this is still unclear and we cannot verify it but we know that in the field where where where this incident happened. Some people say that there are civilians under the rebels and the impact of this explosion caused by the scott missile is a big is large and generally general prosecutor it was our big job and the minister of state of emergency or are in the area trying to understand the impact of this explosion and trying to see how it happened and hear from the locals who have witnessed this is what we heard from the official sources and also minister of defense just tweeted saying that while all these happening other cities that have that have been under fire for the last couple of weeks including. That they are still under fire they are to there is are fired to these areas this is the situation on the ground and some say that the attack to ganja came after us are big john forces heavily attacked stopped bank at the main city of lahore and a quarter by yesterday this is the situation on the ground so far cinema thank you very much to do that sin and cos you know to talk to us from. Almost childhood over is the head of the Azerbaijan Institute for democracy and human rights he says armenia is trying to provoke azerbaijan into an escalation. International law demands the stall 1st of all reasonable external troops from like a bad theyre going to cut about there are a result of the Un Security Council that immediately demands reso of external troops from not going to care about the other around the region we. As original army. Or paraded d or what a sack system is their operations in the going to calabar and liberated several regions and release from arming i could patient thats why a lot armenian army. Moved back to titter of our main and fired from special from tetro army and provoke azerbaijan to attack and destroy these fire points in terror army and after that. To provoke azerbaijan and. Its allies through russia and counters that azerbaijan attack it public arming as. By this way of arming our sorties. To provoke azerbaijan. Right is have taken place in chile ahead of the anniversary of last years massive demonstrations there was many peaceful during the day but later returned violence with Police Firing tear gas and water cannon sunday marks one year since the protests began in the sea and human reports from santiago. This was the finale of what had been a festive demonstration units armed with stones and molotov cocktails attacked Armored Riot Police vehicles in the main gathering area for protests in chiles capital. Security forces moved in suddenly hurling massive amounts of tear gas and acid least water cannons. Hours earlier the scene was quite different. The. Demonstrators danced and sang to the tune of chile has awoken. Thousands of people had come out to show that it was time to get back on to the streets to demand social change you know. Were out here after a long break because of the pandemic im a student and we need to show that were still willing to fight for our rights. This was the preview to the 1st anniversary of the october 18th social uprising last year the old it forced the government and pomus to agree to hold a referendum later this month a mother to the right chiles constitution a key demand and this banner says that the biggest struggles or battles are won on the streets and at the ballot box and that peace is the fruit of justice but the subtext here is to appeal especially to the young people who have come out onto the streets many of them angry and often reflect took violent to go out and vote. 100 meters from the plaza groups with their faces well hidden set up barricades and built bonfires of those gathered and we. With which to later confront the police. Security forces armed with newly bought crowd control gear waited until dark to finally move in sending the demonstrators scaring at least until tomorrow when i meant to return to seeing human aljazeera santiago French Police say an 18 year old man has beheaded a teacher in a north suburb of western paris the teacher recently showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson about freedom of expression challenged ballots reports. These normally quiet streets in northwest paris are the latest of a deadly issue in French Society police say an 18 year old man killed a middle School History teacher with a knife after he showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in class he was teaching about freedom of expression not by what the previous according to my son who is muslim who sat in his class he has discussed it his disappointed he told me this was a teacher he liked very nice very pleasant professor not islamophobia whatever. Parents say the teacher has suggested Muslim Students could leave the classroom if they were offended for muslims any depiction of the prophet is blasphemous. Lives for well my son is disturbed in any case im not putting him back in school its over its the end even after the holidays because were scared were not safe here im afraid of retribution i dont know if theyll come to school or whatever president emmanuel mccrum says the nation stands ready to defend teaches and frances secular values. Idea 131 of our fellow citizens was murdered today because he was a teacher because he was teaching students freedom of expression freedom to believe and not to believe compatriot was attacked in a cowardly fashion he was the victim of a characteristic islamist terrorist attack. Less than a month ago 2 people were attacked outside the form offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo gunmen attacked the magazines offices in 2015 after it published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad 17 people were killed the suspects on trial 2 weeks ago mccrone said in a speech islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today we are not just seeing this in our country our challenge is to fight against those who go off the rails in the name of religion or protecting those who believe in islam and a full citizens of the republic the present. King traveled across. The point. And this is something very can. The attacker was shot dead near the school as offices tried to arrest him ballasts aljazeera. The us President Donald Trump has been campaigning in states he won and 2016 yr dress supporters in my home george are were explained his campaigns low fundraising numbers saying he could be the worlds greatest fundraiser if he wanted he held a rally in florida where he reached out to Senior Citizens and democratic nominee joe bidens been campaigning in detroit before that during another Campaign Stop in michigan he spoke about health care and again attacked president toms handling of the pandemic with 3 weeks to go to go before election day huge numbers of voters have already made their choice more than 22000000 americans have cast early ballots a large turnout is attributed at least in part because people wanted to keep away from large crowds and the risk of coronavirus on the 3rd. Several states including battlegrounds that wisconsin michigan and florida have already passed 20 percent of their total 2016 vote the Political Data from target early says so far more Democratic Party supporters are voting early one among republicans voting is down compared to this time in 2016 White House Correspondent kimberly halakhah looks at how voters have reacted to the rival town hall style events that the candidates appeared in on thursday. 2 very distinct and different styles of campaigning donald trump the more combative he got it seemed the more at ease he became much like his presidency and then it was a stark contrast to the more measured kind of policy focused someone even say sleepy town hall of joe biden so this is essentially the choice that americans are going to make and in fact we should point out are already making because the numbers seem to indicate that when it comes to early voting that these are numbers weve never seen before in the United States some 21000000 americans have already cast their ballots and more are expected in advance of the november 3rd election and what also makes the campaigns nervous particularly on donald trump said is there are fewer undecided voters this time around than in 2016 roughly 7 percent of the voting public is undecided so that means that donald trump especially has to work very very hard to try and win over but it is going to be a challenge because again hes behind by most polls by double digits but the number of undecided voters is in the Single Digits so even if he captured all of them he could still potentially lose the election so hes working very hard hes campaigning in the battleground state of florida but we also know that joe biden is hitting those battleground states very hard as well and as we know as well hes going to bring out some of the big names next week the former president barack obama will be campaigning we know on wednesday on behalf of his Vice President joe biden of course running to take the oval office. Still ahead in aljazeera warnings of an eminent crew in guinea as candidates make a final push in an increasingly divisive election. And a new challenge for pakistans Prime Minister as opposition parties form an alliance against them. Hello there is looking lassie fighting dry across the arabian potential of haiti sunshine not too much to report a little bit of wet weather making its way into turkey but thats aside fine and dry for sums it up here in doha temperatures getting up to around 33. 00 celsius over the next couple of days with plenty of sunshine theres that wetter weather pushing across western parts of turkey just sliding out of the off bosphorus pushing into central areas over the next day or so so some light on the cards here and right on the cards to fill central parts of africa we could see we want to see showers into somalia now theyd say much to speak of but that nevertheless whats the weather there into were ethiopia uganda Central African republic pushing right across into the gulf of guinea heavy showers pushing into Northern Areas of angola as well we will see some wetter weather coming in here from time to time eastern parts of kenya could catch a shower or 2 but last year looking dry here one of 2 spots of rain also coming into that eastern side of tanzania but to the south of that exchange the clear skies all the way warm sunshine in south africa so some pleasant sunshine coming in here watch catch your shower down towards the border with mozambique but warming up in a top temperature of 31 degrees celsius. Accused never convicted and yet incarcerated fiends. Confined in a zombie in prison we can use phone is the journey of a man. Who after losing his freedom in his memory. Is left to mend it with consume. Every the few chance hes doing. There and. On and his ear. George how does it remind of our top stories this hour as about jan says at least 12 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the city of gunshot amenia as Defense Ministry says it didnt fire towards azerbaijan and the type of missile its accused of using doesnt even have the range to reach ganja. Rallies have taken place in chile ahead of the anniversary of last years massive demonstrations demanding social change it was mainly peaceful during the day but earlier riot police fired tear gas and water can. French police say a teacher has been beheaded in a suburb of northwestern paris earlier this month a teacher which on peoples cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The palestinian farmers have been injured during protests in the occupied west bank. Its all of harvest season on the farmers are demanding access to their all of gardens israeli authorities issued orders on monday seizing the land israeli army fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd because the corona virus infections have passed 8000000. 00 in the United States but there is new hope a vaccine could be available by the end of the year drug giant pfizer says it could file for begin later re approval next month pfizer is in late stage trials involving 40000 people the companys waiting on safety data. Well days after winning the Nobel Peace Prize the head of the World Food Program has pleaded with billionaires to do more David Beasley says governments cant afford to contribute to unprecedented humanitarian catastrophes and so its now time for the billionaires have trillions of dollars to help the world showing that they you know got to show them that you care came here in a sherry a significant way he managed he needs them right now we need their help i dont intrude i just need a few 1000000000 to say if millions of lives and Save Humanity from one of the greatest catastrophe ships what war 2 is that too much to ask lord have mercy if you go from a net worth of 500 being the end of or 95 i dont think you go mr legal british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson says he opposes another National Lockdown to curb the spread of corona virus but he hasnt ruled it out london and several other areas will move into level 2 restrictions as part of a new 3 tier alert system in england theyve baka reports. Last chance saloon from midnight on friday new rules in london and other parts of england or the mixing of different households inside all part of the governments localised response to rising infection rates a move the Prime Minister said avoided the need for another National Long down. Some of them argued that we should introduce a National Lockdown and instead of targeted local action i disagree closing businesses in cornwall where transmission is low will not caught transmission in manchester so why cant rule anything out if a tour possible i want to avoid another National Lockdown with the damaging economic and social effects it would have in the capital up to 6 people from mixed households all support bubbles can still meet outside where theres little infection risk leading to some creative ways of bringing people together winters coming and britons bracing for a season out of the cold theres growing anger over the social economic and health costs of curtailing peoples freedom the Prime Minister course johnson is walking a delicate tightrope between those who say his measures are far too restrictive and those who believe the government isnt going far enough in trying to stop this virus in its tracks. A bitter argument also erupted between the British Government and leaders in the north of england the mayor of manchesters warned of dire consequences for the local economy if forced to accept the toughest coronavirus restrictions including a complete ban on social gatherings. The United Kingdom has europes highest official death toll but cases are soaring across europe with around 100000 infections a day the czech republics building the countrys 1st makeshift hospital to cope with europes fastest rising cases more than 4000 hospital staff are now infected in some of the most drastic measures paris and other major friend cities will be under nightly curfews for 4 weeks starting on saturday. Many businesses across europe were counting on the Christmas Season to help bolster sales and protect jobs instead of europe now responsible for a 3rd of all global cases is bracing for a winter of deep discontent needs barker aljazeera london. New zealanders are voting on whether to give Prime Minister derren a 2nd term in office more than half of new zealands 3500000 eligible voters cost early ballots ahead of saturdays election down the Center Left Government is facing a challenge from the conservative opposition led by Judith Collins the zealanders are also voting on referendums to legalize euthanasia and Recreational Cannabis protesters in thailand have ended their friday demonstration after defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day in a ro